Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or "the Company") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC), a world-leading diversified cannabis, hemp, and cannabis device company, today announced strategic changes to its Executive Management Committee. Effective immediately, Mike Lee, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Rade Kovacevic, President and Chief Product Officer will be stepping down from their respective roles on the Executive Management Committee and will depart from the company on December 31, 2021. In the interim, they will serve in an advisory capacity to support transition.

Health Canada-approved buds included in drugs found after 16-month investigation, police say

As Canada’s cannabis industry booms, it’s also creating a tremendous amount of packaging waste – Today, The Niagara Herbalist announces their Cannabis Packaging Buy-Back Program. They will be accepting returns of all recyclable cannabis packaging purchased at any licensed dispensary in the province.

With all due respect to Netflix's Stranger Things, it's easy to understand why Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Miguel Martin considers Canada's recreational marijuana market to be upside down right now. 

"At least for the moment, it's completely irrational," Martin told BNN Bloomberg in an interview shortly after the release of Aurora's fiscal first-quarter results. 

"When you have situations where with 28-gram discount flower, people are losing money, you've got to choose do you want to be profitable or do you want to have a 15 (per cent market) share?"

Two people were arrested after cannabis was seized from a vehicle in Lindsay, Ont., Wednesday afternoon.

The officer spoke with the occupants and noticed a “large quantity” of cannabis in the vehicle, police said. A quantity of cannabis products and cash were seized.

The Ontario Provincial Police Community Street Crime Unit and North Bay OPP Crime Unit seized about 3,700 cannabis plants worth an estimated $3.7 million after executing a warrant at an industrial building Wednesday on Exeter Road in North Bay.

Five people inside the building were arrested and charged.

Yihua Zheng, 58, of North Bay and Qui Yan, 33, of Markham was charged with cultivating cannabis plants at a place that is not their dwelling and fraud under $5,000.

The global CBD skincare market is booming. According to Grand View Research, the market was valued at $234.1 million in 2018, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 32.9% from 2019 to 2025. That’s a strong catalyst for companies such as Ayurcann Holdings Corp. (CSE: AYUR)(FSE:3ZQ0), The Valens Company (TSX:VLNS)(OTC:VLNCF), Auxly Cannabis Group Inc. (OTC:CBWTF)(TSX:XLY), Tilray Inc. (NASDAQ:TLRY), Medipharm Labs Corporation (OTC:MEDIF) (TSX:LABS). In addition, Grand View Research notes, “CBD is considered safe and effective for all skin types but is particularly useful for people who struggle with sensitivity, inflammatory conditions, acne, and dryness related to skin.

Exclusivity, discount bud and a Costco-style membership model are a few ways retailers are competing with the illicit market.

Around October of last year, the legal cannabis industry reached a turning point in Canada’s most populous province.

If you're reaching for a bag of Cheetos and not an edible, you may be fooled by this unlicensed dispensary's packaging. 

Toronto police allegedly seized "a quantity of cannabis products that were packaged and labelled to replicate mainstream candy products for public consumption" on November 5, according to a news release. ​(image source: Toronto Police)

Canopy Growth Corp. is shutting down one of the biggest cannabis greenhouses in Canada as the pot giant looks to cut costs amid its ongoing pursuit of profitability. 

A Canopy spokesperson confirmed that the company is shutting down its Tweed Farms greenhouse located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. on Friday, a one million-square-foot facility. As a result of the closure, 30 staff will be laid off, a company spokesperson added.